pynthanomai · inquire

What it means

pynthanomai (πυνθάνομαι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “inquire”.

Ask in order to find something out.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To ask questions to find out something one does not know.
2. To come to know something because someone tells you.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• he asked ×3
• ask ×2
• asked him ×1
• he was asking ×1
• he was inquiring ×1
• inquire ×1
• learned ×1
• they were asking ×1
• they were inquiring ×1

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Luke×2
• John×2
• Acts×7

• Matthew 2:4

  and gathering together all the high priests and scribes of the people, he was asking them where the Messiah is to be born.

• Luke 15:26

  And calling over one of the servants, he asked what these things might be.

• Luke 18:36

  And hearing a crowd going by, he asked what this might be.

• John 4:52

  So he asked them the hour when he began to get better. So they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”

• John 13:24

  So Simon Peter nods to this man to ask who it might be of whom he was speaking.

• Acts 4:7

  and having set them in the middle, they were inquiring, “By what power or in what name did you do this?”

• Acts 10:18

  And calling out, they were asking whether Simon, who is called Peter, was staying as a guest there.

• Acts 10:29

  That is why I also came without objection when I was sent for. So I ask for what reason you sent for me.”

• Acts 21:33

  Then the commander came near, took hold of him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains, and he was inquiring who he was and what he had done.

• Acts 23:19

  And the commander, taking him by the hand and withdrawing privately, asked him, “What is it that you have to report to me?”

• Acts 23:20

  And he said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you that you bring down Paul tomorrow to the council, as though it were going to inquire somewhat more exactly about him.

• Acts 23:34

  And when he had read it and asked from what province he was, and learned that he was from Cilicia,